Helen Deutsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Deutsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Deutsch |
| SIGNATURE | DEUTSCH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jonathan Swift in Context
True Wit is Nature
This essay puts Yale critic and cofounder of the New Criticism William K. Wimsatt into the balance with the most influential poet of eighteenth-century England, Alexander Pope. A scholar-collector with a lifelong penchant for Pope's poetry and iconography, Wimsatt molds his influential theoretical paradoxes of abstract particularity after the uniquely embodied poet who made himself inseparable from his art. The elusive power of style connects uni…
The Body of Thersites
‘Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everyone’s face but their own.’ The preface to Swift’s ‘The Battle of the Books’ (1704) articulates a uniquely human paradox of universal error and individual delusion that inspires the genre’s violent attempts to reform by replacing self-love with the painful shock of self-recognition. Evoking both Thersites and Achilles, the monster and the hero, the satirist strives to humble …
Living at This Hour
This essay examines the living affinity between two complex and charismatic writers, Jonathan Swift and Edward Said, in order to revitalize our understandings of both. Said’s career-long engagement with Swift took the form of a passionate amateurism that has a claim upon us at a moment when the humanities are being asked to justify themselves to opponents within and beyond the university. Reading Said’s humanism through Swift’s inhumane satire, t…
Oranges, Anecdote and the Nature of Things
Oranges, Anecdote and the Nature of Things Helen Deutsch (bio) On August 6, 1763, the man who would become the greatest master of anecdotal form in English, James Boswell, and the object of his adulation and future biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, enter a church in Harwich. Boswell is about to take unwilling leave of his new friend, who is doing him the honor of seeing him off on his voyage to Holland. They approach the altar: “Johnson, whos…
Symptomatic Correspondences
The symptomatic correspondences of my title write a story of authorship on individual male bodies. In eighteenth-century Britain the male body served as a site upon which authorship was suffered, proven, and displayed as disease. The trials of this body, as it exhibited a plethora of physical and psychological nervous symptoms variously labeled melancholy, hypochondria or the hyp, spleen, vapors, valetudinarianism, or, most specifically, the dise…
The "Truest Copies" and the "Mean Original"
Auto-representation du corps et poetique de la difformite chez Pope comme moyen de contoler la relation auteur-lecteur et strategie d'affirmation du processus auctorial
Living at This Hour
This essay examines the living affinity between two complex and charismatic writers, Jonathan Swift and Edward Said, in order to revitalize our understandings of both. Said’s career-long engagement with Swift took the form of a passionate amateurism that has a claim upon us at a moment when the humanities are being asked to justify themselves to opponents within and beyond the university. Reading Said’s humanism through Swift’s inhumane satire, t…
The "Truest Copies" and the "Mean Original"
Auto-representation du corps et poetique de la difformite chez Pope comme moyen de contoler la relation auteur-lecteur et strategie d'affirmation du processus auctorial
Symptomatic Correspondences
The symptomatic correspondences of my title write a story of authorship on individual male bodies. In eighteenth-century Britain the male body served as a site upon which authorship was suffered, proven, and displayed as disease. The trials of this body, as it exhibited a plethora of physical and psychological nervous symptoms variously labeled melancholy, hypochondria or the hyp, spleen, vapors, valetudinarianism, or, most specifically, the dise…
Oranges, Anecdote and the Nature of Things
Oranges, Anecdote and the Nature of Things Helen Deutsch (bio) On August 6, 1763, the man who would become the greatest master of anecdotal form in English, James Boswell, and the object of his adulation and future biographical subject, Samuel Johnson, enter a church in Harwich. Boswell is about to take unwilling leave of his new friend, who is doing him the honor of seeing him off on his voyage to Holland. They approach the altar: “Johnson, whos…
The Body of Thersites
‘Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everyone’s face but their own.’ The preface to Swift’s ‘The Battle of the Books’ (1704) articulates a uniquely human paradox of universal error and individual delusion that inspires the genre’s violent attempts to reform by replacing self-love with the painful shock of self-recognition. Evoking both Thersites and Achilles, the monster and the hero, the satirist strives to humble …
Living at This Hour
This essay examines the living affinity between two complex and charismatic writers, Jonathan Swift and Edward Said, in order to revitalize our understandings of both. Said’s career-long engagement with Swift took the form of a passionate amateurism that has a claim upon us at a moment when the humanities are being asked to justify themselves to opponents within and beyond the university. Reading Said’s humanism through Swift’s inhumane satire, t…
True Wit is Nature
This essay puts Yale critic and cofounder of the New Criticism William K. Wimsatt into the balance with the most influential poet of eighteenth-century England, Alexander Pope. A scholar-collector with a lifelong penchant for Pope's poetry and iconography, Wimsatt molds his influential theoretical paradoxes of abstract particularity after the uniquely embodied poet who made himself inseparable from his art. The elusive power of style connects uni…
Jonathan Swift in Context
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Literature: history, themes, analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Poetry Analysis and Criticism (2 works)